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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






2. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






3. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






4. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






5. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






6. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






7. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






8. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






9. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






10. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






11. The person who 'tells' the story.






12. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






13. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






14. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






15. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






16. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






17. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






18. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






19. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






20. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






21. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






22. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






23. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






24. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






25. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






26. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






27. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






28. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






29. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






30. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






31. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






32. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






33. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






34. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






35. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






36. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






37. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






38. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






39. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






40. What a story or play is about.






41. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






42. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






43. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






44. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






45. The dictionary meaning of a word.






46. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






47. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






48. Broken down acts.






49. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






50. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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